A city MP has accused a house-building company of paying its bosses millions in bonuses while leaving a Hull estate to fall into a ditch.

Home owners on the Castle Grange estate in Bransholme – built by Persimmon Homes in 2006 – have been dealing with land slippage issues for a decade, with garden fences collapsing into the Sutton Cross Drain behind their homes.

The problem has become so dire, some residents on Honley Wood Close say they have left their fence down as the backs of their gardens slowly slip away.

Chris Forsey, who lives in Credenhill Close with his wife and two children, said he had lost two feet off his garden after he was forced to take his fence in because the back of the property was not safe to walk on.

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People are losing more of their gardens each year (Image: Peter Harbour)

“Since we moved in, the land has been slipping into the river behind the house – as it has with most of the houses on the estate,” said Mr Forsey.

“We have taken our fence in by two feet and next door has taken theirs in by three feet. We have been through one fence already and it looks like we’ll have to renew it again next year. Persimmon has got a lot to answer for."

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She said the delays led to her taking to Parliament to slam the decision for Persimmon Homes to award its chief executive Jeff Fairburn a £110 million bonus – elicited from profits made from the Government’s help-to-buy scheme – when her constituents living in the company’s homes had been left suffering.

The company bonus agreement will see more than £500m paid out to 150 senior staff, including Mr Fairburn.

Residents have said they have lost two and three feet of their gardens (Image: Peter Harbour)

Ms Johnson called for a debate in the House of Commons on “corporate greed and corporate responsibility”, accusing Persimmon of not responding to her letters about Castle Grange until she “threatened to raise this issue in Parliament”.

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Persimmon Homes said the company has written to residents confirming the developer will pay for an independent report to assess what work can be undertaken to shore up the bank.

Simon Usher, managing director for Persimmon Homes Yorkshire, said the disturbance had been caused along Sutton Cross Drain in places where “dredging undermined the bank” following the 2007 floods.

Diana Johnson MP has been in contact with Persimmon Homes since 2014 about the Castle Grange problems (Image: Katie Pugh)

He said: “Our most recent correspondence to Diana Johnson MP details our agreement to appoint and pay for an independent report, as we agreed with Ms Johnson on November 24, 2017 in a meeting also attended by Hull City Council and the Environment Agency.